[WBEL-users] Gigabit ethernet cards

Jan-Albert van Ree javanree at vanree.net
Mon May 23 10:38:47 CDT 2005


On Monday 23 May 2005 00:13, Francies Moore wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Can anyone recommend a type of gigabit ethernet card to go in our two
> WBEL Respin 1 servers?
>
> I know gig cards were mentioned in earlier posts, but would like to know
> what people's experience is before we take the plunge!

Intel E1000 and Broadcom 5788 (which uses tg3 driver, onboard LAN in a 
Shuttle SFF case) work fine here. Although it wasn't 10 times faster than 
100MBit I have to say....  around 5-7 usually on a quiet network
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Jan-Albert van Ree  | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/
VanRee IT Solutions | http://www.vanree.net


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